Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Finsbury Park Station Wells Terrace Entrance Closing to Make Way for Twin Towers
To allow for construction work on the new Finsbury Park Twin Towers, the Wells Terrace entrance / exit to Finsbury Park Station will be closed permanently from 20th April. In 2018 a new station entrance will open in a similar area to the existing Wells Terrace entrance.
See attached announcement from TfL.
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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Really?
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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Well yes it's true - the ES report is here. ITV News picked it up too. TfL say "We are reviewing our options of how best to continue to deliver improvements at Finsbury Park Tube station".
Perhaps it's connected with new passenger flow limitations at peak times now that the other entrances, at Station Place and Seven Sisters Road, have just been fitted with ticket barriers - and nervousness at getting mass media coverage of crowds outside the station as there was after Christmas with the (Network Rail) overrunning works?
The ES and ITV used a picture of crowds in the Christmas foul-up to illustrate this (on the face of it) unrelated story.....
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Much more prosaic than that: City North who are redeveloping all of that area are still sorting out contractors, it seems. More detail here http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/plan_to_close_finsbury_park_...
Don't see why TfL didn't just say so; after all it doesn't reflect badly on them.
PS The ticket barriers are installed but not yet in service as of yesterday. Mind you, the Great Northern entrance doesn't have them, since their platforms are (mostly) barriered. Is that incitement to ticketless travel - of course not!
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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THE closure of this exit/entrance, if and when it happens, will make the railway station harder to use at peak hours.
However, this is likely to be little as compared with the pressure on the remaining entrance this summer during the Haringey Council Cabinet's mega-concerts policy.
These Events are licensed for up to 49,999 attendees, not all of whom are sober or inclined to use the official lavatories.
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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on
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How many free tickets do the local residents get ?
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Local households have been offered a concession on the booking fee. The number who may take this up ,plus the those who enjoy the "free" music, are probably fewer than the number of residents who don't welcome the mega-concerts.
I don't know much beyond that about the ticketing; I do know that the noise nuisance concerns three Boroughs. Both Haringey Council and their business partners (Live Nation) understand this. They are carrying on regardless and have made few if any concessions to local concern.
Three Islington Councillors convened a meeting in the Finsbury Park Mosque a few months ago, about Haringey's (selfish) mega-gig policies, following pressure from their own residents. A local Islington policeman bravely spoke out: honestly and forthrightly – about the trouble caused by Haringey's concerts ... he has since been silenced.
Though few in number, some residents will decamp for the duration, especially on the east side of Seven Sisters (Hackney) as some lives are made miserable (references available).
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How much profits did the council make last year from the concerts do you know ?
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Whatever it is they've invested bugger all into keeping it clean.
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I saw the funfair was moving on today; do you know how much they pay and how much they cost, perhaps?
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I have just done an FOI request so will get back to you in 20 days or so.....
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FPR, it's a good question, a big question and a slow and incomplete answer.
If you're interested in Finsbury Park and its future, do join The Friends of Finsbury Park. Our membership is growing quickly and we expect a surge in early July, when the full effect of the Local Authority's business partner's actions will have been heard and seen.
The FoFP website isn't up officially nor finished but here's what been done so far.
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